If you have a newer version of the Rev Slider – you can simply register your purchase and get auto-updates! Even better!
http://revolution.themepunch.com/documentation/#updating_the_plugin
Full Video Transcript
Hey, y’all! Welcome to another WordPress Wednesday.
My name is Kori Ashton here at WebTegrity in San Antonio, Texas [USA].
Today, We’re going to talk about how to update the Revolution Slider plug-in inside of your theme.
It’s always important that you keep your plug-ins up-to-date to basically for security purposes you need to keep them up to date. And for all-around functionality of your website you always want to be sure that you’re running the latest and greatest version of any plug-in theme or core files of WordPress.
If you’re not sure how to make those updates happen, I’ll put a link in the description box below to another video that we’ve created on how to update your WordPress website. But for today we’re talking specifically about the Rev Slider (or the Revolution Slide).
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That being said, let’s talk about the Rev Slider. How do we update our Rev Slider? I’m going to show you right here that I’m running a pretty old version of the Rev Slider. As a matter of fact, down here at the bottom you can see that it’s 4.0.4.
If you want to know, “Has the author issued an update?” you can always go back to your point of purchase. So, for us, it was, of course, codecanyon. Their sister site is themeforest. Codecanyon. I’m going to scroll down. Well, first of all right here you can see that it says that it’s 4.6 but actually if we go down in the change log, down toward the bottom of the page, you’ll see that they’re running— they’re now on 4.6.93! So, they just did an update this past week [May 8, 2015]. It’s pretty important, again, that you do all these updates consistently.
So, how do you make that happen?
If you have purchased this plug-in separately here on codecanyon, you can just come back here and click download. That’s going to go grab the author’s most recent version of this plug-in. It’s going to download to your hard drive or to your computer right now. I’ve already done that.
And, let’s see. Here it is. So I’ve already downloaded the file. It is already unzipped. And then inside of it, this is the file right here that I’m looking for– this revslider.zip file is exactly what I’m looking for. I’m going to go back over here.
Down here in the right-hand corner you’ve got a purple button that says Update Plugin. [click it] Now it’s going to ask me to go browse for the file. I’ve already showed you that I have it in my downloads area.
I’m going to open this up. Here’s the file right here that I’m looking for (this zipped file). We do not want to unzip it. It must be zipped. See what it says here? These are the instructions that sometimes – sometimes it’s very interesting.
I have a lot of people email me and say, -Kori, can you do a tutorial on this, this, or that. -And, truthfully, if we just slow down for a second and read through the pop-ups that the author may have presented to us (just like this little pop-up) -To update the slider, please show the slider install package. -So, you’re just got to go get the install package. The files will be overwritten.
Here we go. We’ve got the file here. And we’re going to click “Update Slider.” Now, obviously, before you do anything like this, you should have already had a back-up. I’m going to put an alert before all of this to please back-up your website. It’s highly important that you have a back-up of it. But, I’ve done this many, many times.
The guys over at ThemePunch (the authors of this particular plug-in) have got this updating down perfectly. It’s very, very simple to do. And now you don’t lose any of your slideshows.
That’s the incredible thing. All of your customizations, all of your slides, all of the images, everything will still be sitting here after you’ve clicked this update. And now you can see that I am running the most recent version of Rev Slider. And it still has my one slideshow that I had going on in here.
The other thing that I want to show you is now in the most updated version of the Rev Slider they’ve got this really cool panel here that says what version you’re running and that you can check to see if there’s a more updated version. And, a little birdie shared with me that they are looking to do an automatic update push alert, just like all the other plug-ins. More than likely happening in Rev Slider 5.0 that should be coming out shortly. So, very exciting stuff happening right down the pipeline for ThemePunch. And we’re excited to be a part of that in whatever aspect we can help them with, right?
One other thing then. What if your slideshow came inside of a pre-packaged theme that you purchased. You did not go and buy the slideshow separately over on codecanyon? It came inside of the Theme you purchased maybe here on ThemeForest. Well. That’s a little more complex.
I’m actually going to put the link in the description box below to a tutorial that ThemePunch created for anybody whose Rev Slider came inside of a pre-packaged Theme. You’re not at a loss.
The link is below. Click that and go walk through those steps and you should be able to update your Rev Slider.
http://www.themepunch.com/faq/update-plugin-packaged-theme
Have a great one! We’ll catch you on the next WordPress Wednesday. Bye bye, y’all.
The subtitles (closed captioning) and matching transcript
were provided by Malbea LaPete.
